Global Pulse

Groundtruth and the Pulse blog are undertaking a fourth year of global health reporting in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation. In 2014, Pulse will continue to provide a steady flow of reporting and information on challenging global health issues in every corner of the world. We will build on our previous projects — Step by Step, AIDS: A Turning Pointand Healing the World — and continue to dedicate our efforts to report on health policies set in Washington and how those policies play out in the world.

Global health advocates say the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement between the US and 11 other countries, is an attack on public health. Part of the proposal was published by WikiLeaks last week.

Global health advocates are calling for accelerated reductions in child mortality to meet the 2015 deadline, even though they know we won't reach the UN goal. Why many still consider MDG 4 a success story.

In the largest study of diarrheal disease to date, researchers found that four pathogens are responsible for the majority of life-threatening diarrhea cases in developing countries. The second most common? The largely ignored parasite cryptosporidium.